Trends from the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

[David_Schroth]

MSI? If so, it would track with why they bailed on radeon.

LTT had tens of thousands more responses than the TPU poll, same roughly 1 in 3 users.

I would say the population of LTT (or TPU) readers is not a population that is representative of all steam users...

 

[LazyGamer]

They already have the same basic system specs telemetry e.g. AMD collects it via radeon software. It is all they need to sample. It contains OS, gpu, cpu, amount of ram.

I'm thinking more along the lines of enough telemetry to uniquely identify a system and an install - like, if you wipe your OS between surveys - or hell, just reboot into another OS (dual-boot Windows and Linux) - that would influence the survey results. The question is whether Valve collects enough data to make that distinction, and whether the FOSS / privacy communities would be comfortable if they did.

I'm betting that there's something falling through the cracks here that requires some cleanup to interpret.

I have all 3 vendors cards, your anecdote is faulty.

and that comes with side effects that are likely more vocal and AMD users...

This was supposed to be "than AMD users".